Twenty years on from Deep Blue vs Kasparov: how a chess match started the big data revolution – podcast

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Mark Robert Anderson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Twenty years ago, the world looked on in amazement as humanity’s best chess player was beaten by a computer for the first time. While Deep Blue’s victory over Garry Kasparov in New York in May 1997 may have made it seem that computers were learning to think like us, in fact it showed why it was better to be a machine. What followed was the realisation that we could put computers to work on changing almost every aspect of our lives.

Listen to the fascinating in-depth story of how a former student project marked the start of the era of big data. It is written by Mark Anderson and read by Stephen Harris.